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BumpWatch 2009: Nicole Richie

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Miz Richie has gone from zero to bump-tastic in what feels like just a week or two!

Nicole was looking stunning, and very preggers, alongside beau Joel Madden at the Esprit store opening in Santa Monica.

Mostly I’m confused about the Esprit store opening. Is this the same brand that I used to wear when I was eight years old? It’s still around? Has anyone actually purchased Esprit clothing recently? Where did this brand go for the past decade?

Nicole told reporters at the event that she’s expanding her already-successful fashion line to include apparel, accessories and footwear.

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  • Esprit has always been around, albeit not in such a major way. I effing loved those giant canvas Esprit bags. They were basically just like Trader Joe’s re-usable grocery bags but they had the awesome ESPRIT logo and big front pocket. Mine was red and white but I soo wanted the white one with neon multi-colored writing on it. Sigh.

  • awww i remember esprit! i used to have the matching leggings with the sweater and wore my scrunched up socks over my leggings and had a matching scrunchie in my side ponytail!!!

  • They were big in Europe all the time. I used to work for their biggest competitor in Europe – Mexx – until I moved to the US a few month ago. I can NOT recommend their quality and fit. They have had some big issues with that in the last few years.

  • Don’t know which I liked better, Benetton or Esprit… we didn’t have either where I lived so they were both über exotic.

    Nicole Richie looks SOOOOOOO good in this pic!

  • i just saw nicole richie two days ago at lunch
    and she looked way tinier
    maybe it’s just the angle of the pictures, or maybe she really did get that much bigger in two days

  • All things 80’s are hip again. I wonder where I put my old penny loafers…

    She looks darling and I think they are so sweet. OMG… I think I just grew a little tiny piece of a heart. F*%#

  • it’s really shocking,
    because i thought that paris would be the one
    to settle down, have kids, and a husband.
    after her whole jail thing,
    she was like i’m going to be smarter now,
    and nicole was still super thin,
    and i personally thought she did drugs or something.
    props to you, nicole.
    you’ve come a really long way.

    • I hope and pray that Paris Hilton never ever breeds. The gene pool is polluted enough without adding her vacuous, space wasting devil spawn to it.

      On a nicer note, I think Nicole looks great and motherhood seems to be suiting her well. She looks gorgeous.

  • motherhood has certainly calmed her the fuck down.
    it’s a very good look for her.

    still. i long for the days of her wild ass antics on ‘the simple life’.

    especially when her lil’ tike self would start tearing up shit, and throwing furniture. she was soooo bad-assed!

    *ahhhh*

    sure do miss that lil’ sparkplug.

    :-)